In almost every excellent movie, their music chimes well with their stories and emotions.

Western politicians must be almost always prepared to be braced and grilled in their parliaments.

People had better ignore the crowing of some economists in China.

Some of them don't have a clue, and some others are bought off, I'm afraid.

Across the Middle East and North Africa, Muslim sovereignties get chided for lack of democracy, by their own people.

Will this new wave of democratization in the Islam world unleash new economic gains for the whole world?

Compared to traditional Mainland Chinese, Americans and Canadians are apt to be extravagant consumers.

One of their fundamental assumptions seems to be that happiness can be bought with money.

Outside the confines of China, there are things unimaginable for many Chinese.

With ballpoint pens so cheap and convenient, I don't know why people should use fountain pens.

"With freedom comes responsibility."

Individuals are unprecedentedly free nowadays, so their life is unprecedentedly complex.

Is the world mostly a vagrant always pursuing material satisfaction?

It's wise to plan and brace oneself for the Winter.

Woh, Ms. Melissa Ann Shepard, the famous Canadian "Internet black widow", has pleaded guilty.

See http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2013/06/10/ns-internet-black-widow-trial.html .

J tries to hie home before the dusk falls.

G. X. is erring.

Rational people look at precedents.

With each night and then the daybreak, there comes new freedom to act.

In the past, summonses were issued by feudal authorities. Now they're by courts and judges.

Google and Amazon are braced by the flourishing of Linux. Microsoft is not.

Some securities analysts

Roosters crew, the sun didn't move.

Vintage music video - Greensleeves - The Brothers Four

"Alas, my love, you do me wrong". How elegantly written.

Who doesn't like majestic trees?

Now I know that "pike" is the name of one of the ancient weapons which I often saw in movies.

Here goes a very warlike picture of pikemen:
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Everyone has his own moments of feeling powerless and helpless.

The trifecta of desktop OS, web, and mobile OS has grown complex.

I vote for open source.

Canada and the U.S. must be more forestal than Europe, I guess?

J arrived in Canada. And J embraces the freedom to do what he wants to.

Life gets stricken by misfortunes. It's inevitable.

But one becomes better with ill fortunes.

There are many extortive forces working against civilians in undemocratic countries.

The hand towels sold at Dollarama aren't bad nowadays.

There must be myriad of companies, large and small, which will waylay Google.

Microsoft and Amazon probably are the two most formidable ones among them.

By contrast, the tiniest among them are DuckDuckGo (2 employees), and even smaller, Newsblur (1 person, see the "Who" section at http://www.newsblur.com/about ). :-)

Apple Inc. is such a gigantic hoarder of money.

Scratch pads are always needed by people.

They are made of paper in the past, while they are digital nowadays.

Things in the mobile computing sphere are clearer nowadays than several years ago.

I think that even for average consumers, it's probably a mistake for them to brace their own mobile life in the walled garden of Apple's ecosystem.

Now more and more people must have foreknown that Microsoft will be in big trouble.

The mammoth trouble for the Redmond giant doesn't come from Apple, IMHO, it comes from Linux, as well as cheap DIY hardware.

I'm not privy to the licenses of open source software programs, but I rely on those applications much more than on proprietary ones.

Well, I used to think Fila is an American brand name.

But in fact it had been an Italian one, and now it's a Korean company headquartered in Seoul, Korea. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fila_(company).

There's a lot of corporate flimflam in this world.